8:00 AM to 1:30 PM
Text analysis is increasingly used by scholars of international relations as a useful tool to study business strategies, political rhetoric and diplomatic interactions. However, most of the existing methods are focused on English texts. This conference will help close the gap in the method…
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Join us as we hear from Frank Abe and Greg Robinson, co-editors of the book John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy. No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcera…
February 14, 2019
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
In contemporary Japan, membership in haiku groups is overwhelmingly female. However, in the early part of the Edo period (1603-1868), only 2-5% of poets writing haikai (the premodern name for haiku) were women. One of the most prominent of these early female haikai poets was Tagami Kikusha, whose li…
February 21, 2019
4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Daigoji nanshoku-e [Daigoji’s Illustrations of male-male love], more commonly known as Chigo no sōshi [A booklet of acolytes] (ca. 1321) is a collection of five stories characterized by caustic humor and sexually explicit images of chigo’s (adolescent boy acolytes) in…
February 26, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
FLYER | RSVP Duncan Williams will speak about his new book American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom During the Second World War (Harvard University Press, Feb. 2019) on the Japanese American Buddhist experience in the WWII incarceration camps. He will explore question…
February 26, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:15 PM
FLYER | RSVP Duncan Williams will speak about his new book American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom During the Second World War (Harvard University Press, Feb. 2019) on the Japanese American Buddhist experience in the WWII incarceration camps. He will explore questions of faith…
March 1, 2019
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
How does one build a life for oneself in a country that you weren’t born in and didn’t grow up in? Such is the challenge for an immigrant, challenges that bring a lot to bear upon family relations. Japanese women emigrate to many places, two destinations being the United States and the U…
March 17, 2019
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Tours to the 88-temple Shikoku pilgrimage and the sacred mountain of Koyasan (Mt. Koya) in Wakayama have received international attention as Japan’s in-bound tourism to those two sites has increased year on year in the lead up to the 2020 Olympics. Yet, the Buddhist monk behind the existence o…
April 12, 2019
10:00 AM to 3:30 PM
In this workshop, Prof. Uejima will offer a broad introduction to the classification, handling, and reading of medieval Japanese works, from documents to scrolls and books. Participants will learn about the production, categorization, handling, and uses of such materials. In addition to providing a …
April 27, 2019 to April 27, 2019
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The inaugural meeting of the Early Modern Japanese Studies Workshop will bring together specialists from disciplines as diverse as literary studies, theater studies, history, and religious studies whose work deals with early modern Japan. This year’s theme is early modern cities. How were…
